Implementation of virtual network function chaining through segment routing in a linux-based NFV infrastructure

Abdelsalam, Ahmed; Clad, François; Filsfils, Clarence; Salsano, Stefano; Siracusano, Giuseppe; Veltri, Luca

doi:10.1109/netsoft.2017.8004208

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“…It employs two-step flow selection when an SFC with multiple network functions needs to scale out. Furthermore, the authors in [12] introduce a VNF chaining which is implemented through segment routing in a Linux-based infrastructure. To this end, they exploit an IPv6 Segment Routing (SRv6) network programming model to support SFC in an NFV scenario.…”

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Joint failure recovery, fault prevention, and energy-efficient resource management for real-time SFC in fog-supported SDN

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Middleboxes have become a vital part of modern networks by providing services such as load balancing, optimization of network traffic, and content filtering. A sequence of middleboxes comprising a logical service is called a Service Function Chain (SFC). In this context, the main issues are to maintain an acceptable level of network path survivability and a fair allocation of the resource between different demands in the event of faults or failures. In this paper, we focus on the problems of traffic engineering, failure recovery, fault prevention, and SFC with reliability and energy consumption constraints in Software Defined Networks (SDN). These types of deployments use Fog computing as an emerging paradigm to manage the distributed small-size traffic flows passing through the SDN-enabled switches (possibly Fog Nodes). The main aim of this integration is to support service delivery in real-time, failure recovery, and fault-awareness in an SFC context. Firstly, we present an architecture for Failure Recovery and Fault Prevention called FRFP; this is a multi-tier structure in which the real-time traffic flows pass through SDN-enabled switches to jointly decrease the network side-effects of flow rerouting and energy consumption of the Fog Nodes. We then mathematically formulate an optimization problem called the Optimal Fog-Supported Energy-Aware SFC rerouting algorithm (OFES) and propose a near-optimal heuristic called Heuristic OFES (HFES) to solve the corresponding problem in polynomial time. In this way, the energy consumption and the reliability of the selected paths are optimized, while the Quality of Service (QoS) constraints are met and the network congestion is minimized. In a reliability context, the focus of this work is on fault prevention; however, since we use a reallocation technique, the proposed scheme can be used as a failure recovery scheme. We compare the performance of HFES and OFES in terms of power consumption, average path length, fault probability, network side-effects, link utilization, and Fog Node utilization. Additionally, we analyze the computational complexity of HFES. We use a real-world network topology to evaluate our algorithm. The simulation results show that the heuristic algorithm is applicable to large-scale networks.

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“…Encapsulation Header: Our implementation is based on the Network Service Header (NSH) protocol to allow steering the traffic through the different services [27]. Even if other encapsulations, such as Segment Routing v6 [8], could have been used, our choice is motivated by the fact that NSH is an IETF standard explicitly designed for service chaining and is widely used in many opensource frameworks (e.g., [5], [4], [3], [1]). In NSH, the Service Path Identifier (SPI) field uniquely identifies a set of abstract service functions (i.e., the Service Function Chain), while the Service Index (SI) points to the next function the packet has to be delivered to in the SPI set.…”

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Distributed Function Chaining with Anycast Routing

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Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Symposium on SDN Research

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Current networks more and more rely on virtualized middleboxes to flexibly provide security, protocol optimization, and policy compliance functionalities. As such, delivering these services requires that the traffic be steered through the desired sequence of virtual appliances. Current solutions introduce a new logically centralized entity, often called orchestrator, needing to build its own holistic view of the whole network so to decide where to direct the traffic.We advocate that such a centralized orchestration is not necessary and that, on the contrary, the same objectives can be achieved by augmenting the network layer routing so to include the notion of service and its chaining.In this paper, we support our claim by designing such a system. We also present an implementation and an early evaluation, showing that we can easily steer traffic through available resources. This approach also offers promising features such as incremental deployability, multi-domain service chaining, failure resiliency, and easy maintenance.

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“…We categorized the existing solution into two parts, in which, at first, we address the SFC algorithms, [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and then in the second part, we describe the solutions and handle the failures and faults in SDNs/NFVs. We categorized the existing solution into two parts, in which, at first, we address the SFC algorithms, [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and then in the second part, we describe the solutions and handle the failures and faults in SDNs/NFVs.…”

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“…In the following, we briefly discuss the main literature on NFVs/SDNs and service function changing related to our work. We categorized the existing solution into two parts, in which, at first, we address the SFC algorithms, [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and then in the second part, we describe the solutions and handle the failures and faults in SDNs/NFVs. [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]…”

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Software defined service function chaining with failure consideration for fog computing

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Shojafar

Akbari

et al. 2018

Concurrency and Computation

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Middleboxes have become a vital part of modern networks by providing services such as load balancing, optimization of network traffic, and content filtering. A sequence of middleboxes comprising a logical service is called a Service Function Chain (SFC). In this context, the main issues are to maintain an acceptable level of network path survivability and a fair allocation of the resource between different demands in the event of faults or failures. In this paper, we focus on the problems of traffic engineering, failure recovery, fault prevention, and SFC with reliability and energy consumption constraints in Software Defined Networks (SDN). These types of deployments use Fog computing as an emerging paradigm to manage the distributed small-size traffic flows passing through the SDN-enabled switches (possibly Fog Nodes). The main aim of this integration is to support service delivery in real-time failure recovery in an SFC context. First, we present an architecture for Failure Recovery called FRFP; this is a multi-tier structure in which the real-time traffic flows pass through SDN-enabled switches to jointly decrease the network side-effects of flow rerouting and energy consumption of the Fog Nodes. We then mathematically formulate an optimization problem called the Optimal Fast Failure Recovery algorithm (OFFR) and propose a near-optimal heuristic called Heuristic HFFR to solve the corresponding problem in polynomial time. In this way, the reliability of the selected paths are optimized, while the network congestion is minimized. KEYWORDS failure recovery, fog computing (FC), network function virtualization (NFV), resource reallocation, service function chaining (SFC), software defined network (SDN) 1 INTRODUCTION Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm decouples network functions (NFs) from dedicated hardware equipment and provides more flexibility to the owner of an IT infrastructure. NFV consists in a set of different services running on generic hardware (eg, IDS, proxy, deep packet inspection, and firewall) that are chained using the so called Service Function Chaining (SFC) concept. This concept can be applied to industrial environments; in particular, NFV is used in industrial network design in order to reduce exposure to risks, reduce CAPEX/OPEX costs, and minimize future performance issues by basing the infrastructure upon commodity servers and switches. 1 NFV and SFCs offer a great flexibility in the chaining and placement of NFs. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is driving the standardization of NFV. Software Defined Networking (SDN) complements NFV and is concerned with the decoupling of control plane functionality from packet forwarding devices, allowing a controller to flexibly configure the networking operations in the infrastructure. NFV and SDN require attention to avoid cascading threats as well ascontroller protections, especially for the software applications across the SDN switches that interoperate with the server virtualization and virtual machines (VMs). 2...

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Implementation of virtual network function chaining through segment routing in a linux-based NFV infrastructure

Cited by 56 publications

References 4 publications

Joint failure recovery, fault prevention, and energy-efficient resource management for real-time SFC in fog-supported SDN

Joint failure recovery, fault prevention, and energy-efficient resource management for real-time SFC in fog-supported SDN

Distributed Function Chaining with Anycast Routing

Software defined service function chaining with failure consideration for fog computing

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